Hubertus Chapel (Schönwald)
The Hubertuskapelle (formerly Gutenkapelle ) is a chapel dedicated to Saint Hubertus near Schönwald in the Schwarzwald-Baar district .
location
The chapel stands in the source area of the Gutach and is the last remaining building of the abandoned Gutachhöfe. It is on the hiking trail that leads from Triberg over the Geutsche to the Stöcklewald Tower .
history
The courtyards in the vicinity of the Gutach spring, also called "Höfe in der Guta", were first mentioned in documents in 1348. At that time, the property that Adelheid von Schwarzenberg had received as a dowry when she married Walter I von Eschenbach and later sold consisted of seven farm estates. In the following centuries these were merged into three farms.
One of these three farmsteads, the Untergutenhof, which burned down in 1876, had a small chapel called Gutenkapelle . The courtyard was built around 1500, the exact construction date of the little church is not known. When the chapel fell into disrepair at the beginning of the 20th century, the historic altar was taken to the Augustinian Museum in Freiburg im Breisgau , where it remained.
At the beginning of the 1950s, the building, threatened by decay, was repaired through a private initiative and dedicated to Saint Hubertus, the patron saint of hunting, in 1955. The Hubertus Chapel is now a listed building and is the property of the Schönwald community. The local Heimatverein has taken care of them since 1990.
Building description
It is a small hall with an apse and a canopy. The side walls each have a window, two more windows are in the apse. A roof turret with a single bell is placed on the simple gable roof .
Furnishing
Above the altar are two paintings by the local painter Robert Dold. St. Hubertus is depicted on the left, and Wendelinus, the peasant patron , on the right of the viewer . The contemporary cross in the middle bears a restored Romanesque figure of Christ from the 13th century.
Bells
A single small bell hangs in the roof turret.
use
The municipality of Schönwald in the Black Forest, which owns the building, offers civil weddings in the chapel. Once a year, a field mass is celebrated on the meadow in front of the chapel.
literature
- From the good to the Hubertus chapel . In: Südkurier . December 7, 2009 ( online [accessed December 16, 2015]).
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Nagel: Traces of the Middle Ages in the Triberg region . Villingen-Schwenningen 1996.
- ↑ Getting married in Schönwald. Schönwald municipality in the Black Forest, accessed on December 16, 2015 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 43.1 ″ N , 8 ° 14 ′ 26.1 ″ E